Button rollover - change pic

[rCANE]

hi all!

i want a tiny rollover effect but i can't find how

so there is a button, no text just with a black and white ico pic.

when i move the mouse over change the pic (to the colored one) and when out change to it's original (black and white) pic.

thanks

[dantay9]

You can use MouseGetPos and compare the results with the known position of the button.

An easier way would be to use GUIGetCursorInfo. Take a look at the help file for GUIGetCursorInfo and you will find a return value for the button the mouse is over. Here is an example:

$GUI = GUICreate("GUI")
$Button = GUICtrlCreateButton("BUTTON", 50, 50)
GUISetState()

While 1
    $Msg = GUIGetCursorInfo($GUI)
    If $Msg[4] = $Button Then
        ConsoleWrite("ON BUTTON" & @CRLF)
        ;change the picture on the button
        While $Msg[4] = $Button
            $Msg = GUIGetCursorInfo($GUI)
            Sleep(50) ;ease up on the cpu
        WEnd
        ConsoleWrite("OFF BUTTON" & @CRLF)
    EndIf

    Sleep(50) ;ease up on the cpu
WEnd

Edited October 24, 2009 by dantay9

[GEOSoft]

A method I use is to resize the image by a few pixels on mouseover and back to original size on mouseout.

Edit:

Another method is to create a copy of the original icon but slightly lighter or darker and then switch the image on mouseover.

Edited October 24, 2009 by GEOSoft

[Melba23]

rCANE,

This works really nicely - but you need small BMPs rather than .ico files:

; Min Operating Systems: Windows XP

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <GuiButton.au3>
#include <GuiImageList.au3>

$hImage_1 = "BMP_1"
$hImage_2 = "BMP_2"

$hGUI = GUICreate("Button Imagelist - Test",400,300)

$hButton = GUICtrlCreateButton("", 30, 30, 32, 32)
GUICtrlSetTip(-1, "Multi state bitmap imagelist")
$hImage_Button = _GUIImageList_Create(24, 24, 5, 5)
_GUIImageList_AddBitmap($hImage_Button, $hImage_1)   ;1 - Normal
_GUIImageList_AddBitmap($hImage_Button, $hImage_2)   ;2 - Hot (ie cursor over)
_GUICtrlButton_SetImageList($hButton, $hImage_Button)

GUISetState()

While 1
    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
    EndSwitch
WEnd

M23

[Yashied]

@Melba23

_GUIImageList_AddIcon()?

Edited October 24, 2009 by Yashied

[Melba23]

Yashied,

You are quite correct.

My only excuse is that I copied that snippet from a working script which uses BMPs.

M23

[rCANE]

thank you guys, i'll try and screech when i have a problem.

[Datus]

just to let you know i found this very usefull.

ive been using code to check where mouse pointer was and change the icon.

this is much better and reduced the complexity of the code i had to do.